Various: Alex Windsor vs. Sareee for IWGP Women’s Title Set for 10/9 ROH TV Show, Backstage Update on NJPW Scaling Back on Running U.S. Events, Indies/Misc.

Oct 2, 2025

Alex Windsor vs. Sareee for IWGP Women’s Title Announced for October 9th ROH TV Show

Thursday’s ROH TV show on HonorClub featured current IWGP Women’s Champion Sareee making her official debut appearance in Ring of Honor. Sareee teamed up with Alex Windsor in a tag team match against Diamante & Billie Starkz, which was won by Sareee & Billie Starkz.

In a follow-up segment later in the show, Windsor was seen backstage and issued a challenge to Sareee for her IWGP Women’s Championship. It was announced afterwards that ROH owner Tony Khan has made this match official for next week’s show on October 9th.

Although they teamed up tonight, @HailWindsor had harsh words for IWGP Women’s Champion @Sareee_official and issued a challenge!

Watch #ROH TV on #HonorClub at https://t.co/8dcdtxqvDf pic.twitter.com/MZgoSxEJYA
— ROH – Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) October 3, 2025

Current card for October 9th ROH TV show:

IWGP Women’s Championship – Alex Windsor vs. Sareee (c)

Backstage Update on NJPW Scaling Back on Running U.S. Events

New Japan Pro Wrestling has held three events so far this year in the United States, down from last year’s total of six events and also down from their 2023 year total of eight events.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that the reason why NJPW has not held any events in the United States of late and fewer events in general is due to a combination of declining attendance for their U.S. events and many wrestlers on the roster not wanting to make the trip overseas. This reportedly has led to NJPW officials scaling back on the numbers of events in the U.S.

NJPW’s most recent event in the U.S. was their Resurgence 2025 event this past May in Ontario, California.

Misc. Wrestling News & Notes

Thursday’s TNA Impact! show on AXS TV and Sportsnet 360 featured wrestling legend and former TNA wrestler Amazing Red making a surprise appearance. During the show, a video aired hyping up Mike Santana ahead of his match against Trick Williams for the TNA World Championship match at TNA Bound For Glory 2025. Red appeared in the video and gave a speech encouraging Santana to defeat Williams and win the TNA World title.

wXw recently announced that they have cut all ties with Marius Al-Ani and vacated the wXw European Championship held by Al-Ani following him being involved in a controversial online incident over him posting a now deleted video on TikTok that featured a Nazi era marching song. This controversial video had featured Al-Ani encouraging Germans to take a stand as the music plays, which was a song called “Erika” by Herms Niel and used by the German Wermarcht in World War II.

Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling recently announced that a new wrestling-based documentary called “Wrestling Life” will be premiering at this year’s Windsor International Film Festival on October 31st. It was also announced that this upcoming new documentary features MLW owner Scott D’Amore and indies wrestler Aiden Prince.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that MLP is currently working on plans to launch a new weekly wrestling television series. Johnson reported that a pitch reel has been created and that MLW officials have held recent meetings with several top networks in Canada. Johnson also reported that the current plan is to center MLP TV in Canada as opposed to initially going for The United States or other international markets.

All-women’s indies promotion Genesis Premier League announced that they have recently signed former AEW and ROH talents Leyla Hirsch and Abadon to official contracts with the company.

New Japan Pro Wrestling recently announced that they have sold over 20,000 tickets for their Wrestle Kingdom 20 event on January 4, 2026 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan after the first day of tickets officially being on sale.

As noted before, Dakota Kai was released from WWE this past May and is currently on a break from wrestling. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Kai has been preparing for her next move in her wrestling career. Those spoken to reportedly stated that they would not be surprised if Kai ends up taking some future bookings in Japan. It was reported that Kai recently had some new wrestling gear made so she plans to continue wrestling at some point in the future.

In a recent interview with Tokyo Sports, Tetsuya Naito gave an update on his health after working back-to-back dates for wXw and Revolution Pro Wrestling at the end of September. Naito stated “After leaving New Japan, I did feel like I wasn’t wrestling enough. This time, wrestling back-to-back matches brought back that familiar ache in my body. It felt nostalgic. That’s when I realized, ‘This is what being a pro wrestler is all about.’ I want to get back in the ring soon, and there are so many countries that haven’t seen pro wrestling yet. I want to show people all over the world the real Tetsuya Naito.“

In a recent interview with TV Insider, TNA President Carlos Silva gave his thoughts about TNA’s current working relationship with WWE’s NXT brand. Silva stated “Working with the NXT folks as well as WWE folks has been very easy. There has been great coordination. We’ve kind of supported each other with last-minute asks on both sides, which I think is a testament to a good partnership. It’s not just one asking. We might ask, or they might ask, and we always find a way to move things forward. This big Showdown episode of NXT happening down in Orlando is going to be great. You saw it on The CW live with the teams sort of aligning. I think the theme is building. There is also intrigue and maybe a little strangeness the way certain teammates are on each team, but they have certain alliances and allegiances to the other organization. Whether they’ve come from that organization or been there or holding the belt from one organization even though they work for the other. I think all of that there. I think as a result it’s going to be awesome Tuesday night on NXT down in Orlando.“

WWE Hall of Famer Bret “The Hitman” Hart announced on Instagram that his daughter Jade recently overcame her battle with breast cancer. Hart stated “I’m so immensely proud and joyful that my daughter Jade has triumphantly battled breast cancer with a courage and strength that will always define her. As a cancer survivor myself, I can’t begin to express how grateful I am, that my beautiful daughter Jade has won her fight. She proved that faith and love can beat anything when one’s heart is full. I am so proud beyond words. I wanted to share this video she made for #breastcancerawarnessmonth as a reminder to everyone that early detection is the best protection. Please remember to self examine and schedule your mammogram.”

House of Glory recently announced one new match for the card of their With Glory Comes Pride event on October 10th in Queens, New York: